Detroit Pistons Take Jeremy Lamb at No. 9 in NBADraft.net Mock Draft

Jeremy Lamb is not a name that Detroit Pistons fans have heard a lot in the run-up to the 2012 NBA Draft, but that’s exactly who the folks at NBADraft.net have landing in the Motor City on June 28.

In the site’s most recent mock draft, posted very late on Monday night, NBADraft.net has Detroit passing on big men like Arnett Moultrie, John Henson, Jared Sullinger, Myers Leonard and Perry Jones — all players expected to work out for the Pistons before the draft — to take Lamb, a shooting guard from Connecticut.
It’s an interesting thought, given Detroit’s glut of shooting guard/small forward-type players and the team’s desperate need for help up front alongside Greg Monroe. But Lamb, 6-foot-5 with a 7-foot-1 wingspan, poured in 17.7 points per game last season and added 4.9 rebounds while picking up the slack in the wake of Kemba Walker’s departure.

Should the top of the draft play out like that, the Pistons would be have to be thrilled — not only would intriguing wings like Lamb and Austin Rivers be around, but so would a plethora of big men.

NBADraft.net runs through both rounds of the draft with each of its mocks. In Round 2, the site’s writers have the Pistons grabbing Oregon State shooting guard Jared Cunningham at 39 and Baylor power forward Quincy Acy at 44.